Leftover chops, patties to be sold Monday afternoon

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Aug 30, 2013 at 10:15 AM

Committee hopes to sell all the leftovers

Every year the Hog Festival Committee sells off any remaining chops and patties at a wholesale price in the days immediately following the weekend event.This year the committee is trying something new with what is being billed as the Hog Days Surplus Sale Monday from 4 to 5 p.m. when the festival begins shutting down. Festival spokesperson Larry Flannery said that by 4 p.m. the last of the chops and patties that will be sold are on the grills so they can be cooked, bagged and sold before the 5 p.m. end time. So the committee has decided to go ahead and start selling off any leftovers at that time.“Obviously we hope by 4 p.m. there will be nothing left to sell off,” Flannery said, “but if there is, anyone will be able to purchase cases of chops and-or patties at a close to wholesale price. “ Fifty-count cases of butterfly chops will be available at $55 a case. Each case is within a few ounces of 16.6 pounds.Patties will be sold in cases of 48 quarter-pound burgers at $25 a case. Those prices include all applicable taxes.The surplus sale will take place at the downtown grilling area only and the meat will only be sold between 4 and 5 p.m. If any product remains after that, it will be taken to the Hog Festival building and sold beginning Tuesday at 9 a.m. at the same prices.Flannery said cases only will be sold at the Monday afternoon sale.In the past few years, any leftover chops and patties have been gone within a day or two following the end of the festival.If the surplus sale works out, Flannery said, the Hog Festival Committee is hoping everything will be gone as the festival closes.Sullivan’s Foods will be providing 14,000 butterfly pork chops and Save-A-Lot 16,000 quarter pound pork patties for this year’s festival.